Growing Centers of Enablement Excellence with Simon Owen

This podcast episode features an interview with Simon Owen, who shares his journey into the world of Power Platform and how he became a group manager of the Global Power team. The conversation revolves around the evolution of the Center of Enablement and the importance of scaling the Power Platform within organizations.

They discuss the significance of implementing governance and guardrails, while also empowering individuals to leverage the technology to its fullest potential, resulting in a digitally literate workforce that improves productivity and paves the way for innovative business solutions. The interview delves into scenarios where organizations limit citizen developers' involvement due to security concerns or embrace a team-based approach with a software factory mindset to build numerous solutions.

Simon offers valuable insights into the decision-making process and its impact on governance and enablement, including discussing the timeline for establishing a stable and effective system within the Power Platform, and the licensing complexities large organizations face when considering widespread adoption of the Power Platform.

Overall, this informative interview showcases how to create growing centers of enablement excellence, and how low-risk, low-cost experimental projects can gradually expand the capabilities and expertise of citizen developers to solve increasingly complex problems.

Listen to the full episode on Spotify.